[Diabetes-talk] HBA1C calculators.

[Michael Park]

Hi there.

I am also sending copies of this email to some of my diabetic friends in 
South Africa, as well as to a South African diabetes forum to which I 
belong and although I am addressing a South African audience, have still 
tried to give this post a bit of an international flavour for the 
benefit of everyone else.

Not quite sure how useful this is going to be to folks on the community, 
but I have discovered a tool which can give you a fairly good idea of 
what your HBA1C is going to be before you even go to the doctor. The 
tool can be found on the Accu-chek web site for the United States and is 
situated at
https://www.accu-chek.com/us/glucose-monitoring/a1c-calculator.html#

I went searching for this tool in response to a question put by someone 
who belongs to one of the other international diabetes forums to which I 
also belong.

The only thing that you should bear in mind if you are going to use this 
tool, is that you will have to convert our MMol/L to mg/dl which is the 
measuring unit peculiar to the United States only, as far as I can 
ascertain. In order to convert MMol/L to mg/dl, simply multiply our 
numbers by 18 so that a reading of 6.0, for instance, would translate 
into 108 in US terms and 6.5 would translate into 117.

I have tried using the calculator, using my sugar averages from old 
diaries and the reading compares well with HBA1C's I recorded in the past.

What you should note is that the HBA1C figures in the USA work out to 
the same as the unit we use here, so that if your HBA1C would be say, 
6.0 here, it will also be 6.0 in the United States.

If you do not live in the United States and you cannot do the sums, I 
would recommend a programable unit converter called Converber the 
portable version of which can be downloaded from
http://www.portableapps.com

You will have to program the unit conversions for diabetes into the 
program, but that is a relatively simple task to do. If you are stuck on 
how to do this, please feel free to write me and we can perhaps arrange 
to chat on Skype on the net and help you to do the conversion.

If you are stuck regarding getting the program, I think I have a copy 
here which I can send you.

Finally, the Accu-chek web site is screen reader accessible, and in 
particular, and for the benefit of NVDA users, it is also NVDA friendly.

-- 
Michael Park.
I am not an expert, because "ex" means "has been" and "spert" is "a drip under pressure".

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